Oscar Selby also won the British Lightning on the Friday evening with 5/5, including some close handicap victories over dan players. Winning 4 were Zebin Du, Yuanbo Zhang, Andrew Simons
and Paul Barnard.

The team prize went to Andrew Kay, Andrew Simons and Klaudia Kleczkowska, whilst the best club team was judged to be Epsom.

Andrew Simons also won the Stacey Grand Prix for the year with 29 points (second was Toby Manning with 26 points and third Richard Hunter with 17). The continuous tournament was won by Roger
Daniel and the Congresses Quiz was won by Toby Manning.

There were 67 players in all taking part in the Open, which was part of the British Go Congress
weekend. This was held in the Cromwell Hotel in the very pleasant old town area of Stevenage and sponsored by Puzzle Shed. Most of the prizes were puzzle Go stones, with the major ones being large Go stones consisting of geared elements printed by a 3-D printer and the others being large or small flying Go stones.

Special guest for the weekend was Michael Redmond 9p, the American professional who was
concluding his week long training tour of England (thanks to the Nihon Ki-in and the Sasakawa Foundation). He ran a training session on the Friday, played simultaneous matches and analysed games throughout the weekend.
The special prize for the best move/improver was chosen by Michael to go to young Oscar Selby.

The weekend also featured the BGA's AGM and a Congress dinner on the Saturday evening.

All this was well organised by Alison and Simon Bexfield from the nearby Letchworth Club, who thanked all those who helped make it possible and explained the cryptic symbols on players' badges.